Ma Xi was a little surprised to find that the Qing army did not attack the city today.
In general siege warfare and siege warfare, there are certain strategies that must be adopted. The key point of siege warfare is not to stop, because once it stops, the previously damaged parts of the city wall will be repaired again. The previous casualties will be in vain.
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However, starting from midnight last night, the Qing army stopped attacking and the two yellow flags were withdrawn.
Ma Xi calculated in his mind and estimated that the Qing army should have suffered at least 3,000 casualties in ten days. It was a heavy loss. The 5,000 Gansu soldiers in Chengli also suffered 1,500 casualties. This was still made of a city wall.
Relying on this, if we fight in the field, the whole army will be wiped out in one morning.
Ma Xi sighed. Catching a rogue is more like catching a tiger.
Jianu are not easy to fight. Their archery skills are too good. These casualties were all killed and injured by heavy arrows. Many of the arrows of Jianu's heavy arrows are in the shape of a shovel, which can almost cut off an arm. Shoot.
On the torso, on the neck, that's it. There's no way to stop the bleeding from such a large open wound.
It is estimated that apart from a small number of injuries that will cause disability, the rest will soon be infected and die.
This is the situation in this era. Most of the people who died did not die on the battlefield, but died from wound complications after being injured. Infection is the biggest cause of death. It far exceeds those who were killed directly on the battlefield.
He didn't dare to sleep last night. The Eight Banners attacked the city like crazy, day and night.
However, from midnight yesterday to noon today, Jiannu's attack completely stopped. He was puzzled as to what conspiracy Jiannu was up to.
At noon he couldn't bear it any longer and told his lieutenant that he was going to take a nap. However, he was woken up within a quarter of an hour of lying down.
"Sir, the slaves under the city have been replaced by two white flags. Moreover, they do not attack the city. Instead, they use horse-drawn sledges to pull wooden barrels with water in them, and they are still splashing them as they go. I don't know what it means."
Ma Xi was shocked, this was so weird.
During this season, the weather is freezing, and the grassland outside Guan Guan is filled with dripping water that turns into ice. If the water is splashed, it will freeze immediately. And it is not easy to get water. You have to go to the Laoha River to break the ice to get water. What is Jian Nu planning to do?
"Don't let them get close. If they get close, shoot them to death with bows and arrows, and kill them with muskets." Ma Xi gritted his teeth and said. No matter what they planned to do, they just wouldn't be allowed to get close.
These people seemed to know this, so they poured water 150 meters away from the city wall and then turned back and poured water. Hundreds of ice channels were poured out, sparkling in the sun.
The snow was originally covered with snow, but now the snow was poured with water and everything froze into ice.
The defenders on the city wall watched them working outside the shooting range with cold eyes, but there was nothing they could do. They had no choice but to let them do it and keep vigilant surveillance.
"Boss, do you think these slaves were frozen stupidly? They poured water on the ground and it turned into ice. They were slipping and sliding, so wouldn't it be even harder to attack?" Hu Ergou wiped.
Sniffle said.
It's too cold in Mongolia, much colder than Gansu. Especially when guarding the city at night, I can only keep stamping my feet, otherwise my feet will become numb from the cold after a while.
Xiao Qi Dong Ping frowned, but he felt a little uneasy and didn't feel funny at all.
Ma Xi didn't know what they were doing, so she could only tell the officers and soldiers to be vigilant. They were not allowed to sleep at night and watched with wide eyes to avoid being attacked by them.
Soon it was getting dark. It was cloudy today, and the city wall could not be seen below. Dorgon, Duduo, and Azig all came. The officials and ministers of the two white flags also came. Standing beside the Dorgon brothers
Behind him, he looked silently at the city wall in the distance.
The crenels on the city wall were lit with torches, but they could only illuminate a range of three or four meters outside the crenels. The flames of the torches kept jumping and swaying in the cold wind.
Dorgon waved his hand silently, and more than 3,000 slaves, under the supervision of the bannermen again, pushed the sledge and started watering. It was not until the moat was watered that the defenders on the city wall discovered it.
Suddenly, bows, arrows and three-eyed guns were shot down one after another.
But it was too dark to see clearly, and the hit rate was very poor. The ice road just extended to the bottom of the city wall.
Ma Xi was sleeping in the city tower. He suddenly sat up and asked loudly: "Did Jian Nu come up? Why did he fire the gun?"
"Sir, Jian Nu took advantage of the darkness to pour water on the moat." A soldier came over to report.
Ma Xi felt a palpitation in his heart for no reason. His gut feeling was that something was not good, but he didn't know what Jiannu was planning.
"Oops, there's ice pushing over, there's ice." A soldier shouted from the city wall in front.
Ma Xi quickly put on her fox fur coat and rushed out.
"Throw down the torch, hurry up." Ma Xi shouted.
The torches crossed the parabola and were thrown from the top of the city. Some fell in the moat and some fell outside the moat. They illuminated many places at once.
Ma Xi lay down at the crenel and took a look, and took a breath of air.
I saw countless rectangular ice blocks being pushed by soldiers and slaves, sliding along the ice road and pushing towards the city wall. Each of these ice blocks was one foot high, and dozens of people behind them pushed them forward with logs. There were still people in front of them.
There are soldiers holding large shields to cover, and behind the shields are archers, waiting for opportunities to shoot arrows at the city wall.
Jiannu's bow was powerful, its range was much greater than that of the defenders, and their archery skills surpassed eight streets. The result of the crossfire was that the city wall suffered a loss, and the torches at the crenellations exposed their target.
Ma Xi was so anxious that he didn't know what to do. He watched these big ice blocks sliding rapidly on the ice road. The bows and arrows and muskets on the city wall hit these ice blocks. They had no effect except one or two strings of sparks. The small French cannon
When it hits the ice, a corner of it will fly away.
Soon these ice blocks pushed into the moat, slid to the bottom of the ditch, and hit the bodies of those who died here during the siege in the past few days. The ice blocks were pushed continuously and thrown into the moat. Soon, the moat was filled.
draw.
Then the ice continued to cross the moat and was pushed under the city wall. Then more people threw small ice cubes under the city wall. Shield soldiers protected these people, and archers fired at the defenders on the city wall.
In order to increase visibility, the defenders kept throwing burning wood under the city, and then fired arrows and fired three-eyed muskets wildly. The slaves under the city, under the coercion of the slaves, continued to pile up the firewood brought by the ice road.
ice cubes.
Before dawn, the ice finally formed countless slopes, and the city wall finally became undefendable.
"Let the white-toothed soldiers take the lead, and the red-toothed soldiers to hold down the formation behind. Kill those who retreat, and kill those who retreat. Within an hour, I will take down the east wall." Dorgon said in a low voice.
"Zhe, please take a look at it, Master. The general will not be able to take down the city wall, so he raised his head to see me."
Before dawn, it is the darkest moment. The white-toothed warriors in white armor rush to the front, very eye-catching. The bannermen of the Eight Banners follow behind, and the red-toothed warriors supervise the battle from behind. Anyone who dares to run will be hacked to death.
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Ma Xi saw the Eight Banners swarming on the city, her vision went dark, and she almost spit out a mouthful of blood.